Hey all, first post

[M&G Montreal]

First of all, Welcome, Holla-Colla! You will find all kinds of useful information on this board, and great people! The more people you get to know, the more you may need that phone to connect for activities and such when down there! Some hotels will rent you a phone for a nominal fee, and you buy the minutes. We paid about $15 US for 1,000 international minutes and after 2 weeks turned it back with tons of minutes left! It's great to have as you will collect good taxi driver numbers and such you will want to have on you. It seems to me that to add a package from your US based carrier is going to be way more expensive than getting an el cheapo phone down there. I mean, 1,000 intl minutes for $15? I can call Australia from Jam for cheaper than I can from here in Canada!

Enjoy your trip! I hope you love it like most of us do! Where are you staying? Promise me you won't eat at KFC, but will try real island food and drinks! Get into it! You'll love it!

[booger]

I have a us based blackberry on att also. its old and i dont use it so its deactivated. Do i need att to activate it first or can it be activated when i buy the sim card?

its a blackberry world phone

Your Blackberry will work fine, as long as you unlock it. You can get unlock codes for as low as $1.99 on the internet. Once you unlock it and insert the Jamaican sim card you will be good to go as long as you purchase the minutes. I used an unlocked At&T blackberry in July and it worked like a champ.

[Colla_Holla]

Thank you all for the great advice! im leaning towards bringing the old blackberry with me. The only reason i wanna bring my current phone is for foursquare checkins really (im a nerd). thanks again for all the great advice.

First of all, Welcome, Holla-Colla! You will find all kinds of useful information on this board, and great people! The more people you get to know, the more you may need that phone to connect for activities and such when down there! Some hotels will rent you a phone for a nominal fee, and you buy the minutes. We paid about $15 US for 1,000 international minutes and after 2 weeks turned it back with tons of minutes left! It's great to have as you will collect good taxi driver numbers and such you will want to have on you. It seems to me that to add a package from your US based carrier is going to be way more expensive than getting an el cheapo phone down there. I mean, 1,000 intl minutes for $15? I can call Australia from Jam for cheaper than I can from here in Canada!

Enjoy your trip! I hope you love it like most of us do! Where are you staying? Promise me you won't eat at KFC, but will try real island food and drinks! Get into it! You'll love it!

We're staying at coco la palm... and helllll no I am not eating at kfc, im a bit of a foodie so im trying everything i can possibly eat. I want lobster, and i'll probably eat a **** ton of jerk. and some of that ackee? oh and i want conch. im gonna eat everyyyyythang!

i really want to bring back some of that jb overproof rum but maybe thats too high of alcohol content to bring back?